katallison

I love this idea of looking at it, and I probably should have checked "a little of this, a little of that." It depends on what I'm doing. Comedy is British character acting all the way, and might not even have all the tons and tons of emotional underpinnings, depending on what level of comedy/fluff we're talking about. Certain types of emotionally expressive scenes, and definitely sex scenes, are all about the Method acting. erm. That sounds more suggestive than I meant for it to be. It's not that I personally need to experience those feelings, but I'll sit and focus and try to get at what it feels like to be that focused on something (it's kind of an onion-y layer thing of perception, I guess) in order to be able to write the POV of someone who is at that moment in time that focused on something, whether it's the next touch of someone's hand or the next words out of someone's mouth.

Generally, though, I have a set-up and I have the characters, doing something, and then I sort of figure out from what they do and say how they're feeling about things. Which I guess is the "something else" option. Then... oo, ticky box.